Demons. Pish. They don't scare me, I was married to their boss's sister.

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I remember when I was a kid the stupid reaction some kids would have to buildings or locations. It is haunted would be the general phrase. I would say there is a tramp living there. They could not think and assumed the worst.

Kids spooking each other is just one of those things they do to get a rise out of each other. We used to dare each other to go into empty, supposedly haunted buildings until one evening an old garage/mechanic workshop just across the road collapsed completely. Thankfully it was empty when it came down so nobody was hurt. Just the look of fear on my parent's faces as they and others checked around each other to make sure everyone was accounted for was enough to end my days of bravado fuelled expeditions. But at least we had a more sensible reason than "it's haunted" to stay out now.

As for the OP. Well that's just fucking stupid.

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.Mark Twain

Scot Dutchy wrote:I remember when I was a kid the stupid reaction some kids would have to buildings or locations. It is haunted would be the general phrase. I would say there is a tramp living there. They could not think and assumed the worst.

Actually I think a man having to sleep in an abandoned building qualifies as the worst.

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Scot Dutchy wrote:I remember when I was a kid the stupid reaction some kids would have to buildings or locations. It is haunted would be the general phrase. I would say there is a tramp living there. They could not think and assumed the worst.

Actually I think a man having to sleep in an abandoned building qualifies as the worst.

Personally, I find it far more worrying, that people in the 21st century still regard this 12th century drivel about "demons", to be something other than the product of an uneducated, scientifically unaware era, than the psychiatric illnesses whose symptoms almost certainly led to the fabrication of this concept in the first place. Furthermore, febrile adherence to this ridiculous idea in a modern, scientific era, is probably indicative itself, of an even more florid psychiatric illness than those leading the gullible of the past to invent this nonsense.

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Calilasseia wrote:Personally, I find it far more worrying, that people in the 21st century still regard this 12th century drivel about "demons", to be something other than the product of an uneducated, scientifically unaware era, than the psychiatric illnesses whose symptoms almost certainly led to the fabrication of this concept in the first place. Furthermore, febrile adherence to this ridiculous idea in a modern, scientific era, is probably indicative itself, of an even more florid psychiatric illness than those leading the gullible of the past to invent this nonsense.

Cali you hoping for too much. You would have to ban all sci-fi and horror films. The dimwitted amongst us think that is even real life.

Calilasseia wrote:Personally, I find it far more worrying, that people in the 21st century still regard this 12th century drivel about "demons", to be something other than the product of an uneducated, scientifically unaware era, than the psychiatric illnesses whose symptoms almost certainly led to the fabrication of this concept in the first place. Furthermore, febrile adherence to this ridiculous idea in a modern, scientific era, is probably indicative itself, of an even more florid psychiatric illness than those leading the gullible of the past to invent this nonsense.

Cali you hoping for too much. You would have to ban all sci-fi and horror films.

Most devotees thereof I'm in contact with know the distinction between fiction and fact. There'll always be a need for entertainment to keep us humans happy. Plus, the genres in question are frequently pressed into service as vehicles for social critique. A good example from the Stephen King stable is Dolores Claiborne.

Scot Dutchy wrote:The dimwitted amongst us think that is even real life.

If we allowed our actions to be dictated by the stupidity of the bottom tier, we'd never get anywhere.

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